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From “ Legends of the I first-'’
JERRY SMITH’S WIDOW.
I left iny residence in Kentucky a few
years ago, and proceeded to Baltimore for
i lie purpose of transacting some business with
5 mercantile house, with winch I had been
extensively concerned. No one knew the
object of my journey; because, being a
bachelor, in easy circumstances, I was under
no obligation to disclose to any person more
* Iran I thought proper. I left iny farm under
*iac direction of a manager, with the expecta
tion of returning in a few weeks. On my
a rrival in Baltimore, I found that it would be
n ecessary to proceed to Now Orleans. The
'essel in which I embarked, after being
Ladled and detained by. head winds, at length
sprung a leak, and we were obliged to put
into Havana.
Here various delays occurred, At as I could
neither talk Spanish, play billiards, nor smoke
cigars, the time hung so heavily upon my
hands, that I soon fretted myself into a bilious
fever. In this condition my captain loft me,
without so much as saying good bye; and
when at last 1 reached New Orleans, by
another vessel, I found that the person w ith
whom iny a flairs had been entrusted, was ab
sent, ami not expected to return for several
weeks. Tiicre was now iib alternative left
lhe, but c. her to abandon the object of iny,
voyage, an 1 risk tiio entire loss of a large :
sum, or by remaining, expose my constitu
tion, already debilitated & pr disposed to dis
ease, to the dangers of a very sickly climate.
Unfortunately 1 adopted the latter course.
I found the weather as hot here as in Cuba,
tiio language as incomprehensible, and the
billiard tables quite as devoid of interest.—
The sickly season was fast approaching and
as 1 had determined net to escape disease by
flight, I endeavored to avoid it by precaution.
It is amusing enough to those who can look
on from a distance, to see the various expe
dients by which men endeavor to contend
with death; as if the great destroyer was a
fnc who could be eluded by cunning, or baf
fled by force. The yellow fever assailed the
inhabitants ; I feit the malady, or thought I
felt it, creeping slowly into my system, and
resorted to every preventive which my own
reason,.or the experience of others suggested.
I first tried the Sangradoplan ; drank water,
ate vegetables, and suffered phlebotomy.—
But I soon found that 1 could not endure star-1
ration, nor carry on functions of life with
out a due supply of the circulating medium.
I resorted to stimulants and tonics—a mint
julap i;i the morning, bitters at noon, and
witia afir-r dinner ; hut alas! with no better
success; for every time that I looked in the
g'nss, I discovered, by my sallow visage, that
l!ia enemy was silently making his approaches.
My eyes became jaundiced—ray pulse heavy
--aiy skin dry—and my complexion received
anew coat of yellow every day, deepening
at first into a dedicate orange, then to saffron,
and lastly to a re and copper cidor, fintil I began
to fear that I was actually degenerating into
a Spaniard, a Quarti rooii, or a Cherokee.
‘■Coming events throw their sktuhiv before,”
and on this occasion the shadows tinging my
face were but too prophetic. The dreadful
f vrreame at last and I sunk into a state of
helpless misery which none can truly estimate
luf those who have felt its poignancy. I was
a stranirer, far from homo ; in a climate taint
ed with disease; and attacked by a disorder
supposed to be fatal. That malady, among
other distressing characteristics, lias one
which is peculiarly aggravating. 1 know not
whether others are similarly affected, but to
me a fever brings a state of excitement and
a.msitiTeness which produces the most ex
quisite torture. My whole nature is subtil
i:ied—every feeling is quickened—and every
sense sharpened ir.to a painful acuteness of
perception. The judgment is weakened, but
the imagination acquires a supernatural ac
tivity ; the body sinks, but the spirit is feel
ingly alive. Such was my state.
It i he early stages of my disease, a thousand
wild visions were in my brain. 1 made
ravines; repeated pages of Latin, although
:n a moment of sanity I could not have con
nect'd a sentence ; 1 saw people whose faces
i id bn. > forgotten for years; 1 called up
• • • ■!' v lich had transpired in my childhood;
! plant: xi novels, composed essays, and de
'used theories; i fought battles; J recalled
She joys and repeated the sins of my whole
Lie- i was a madman, philosopher, a devo
tee, and a wag, in the same hour. At one
moment 1 prayed fervently; at another 1
dropped tile doctor's nostrums in my sleeve,
and amused myself with inventing ingenious
answers to deceive linn and feigning symp
toms which did not exist. 1 jested, moraliz
ed, groaned, wept, and laughed; and found
in each new mood that came over in ■, a pang!
equally agonizing to that which 1 had suffered
in the one that Lad iust passed oIT.
Such is fever! an excruciating bodily pain,
u brilliancy and strength of intellectual vis
ion which looks back to infancy, and forward
to eternity, anti around upon the whole scene
of life, while the mental eye iscrowded with
images, whose number and vividness weary
n.id distract the brain. Loss of strength,
-uipor, and melancholy succeeded. I thought
(.. home, of myself, and death; and my vis
ions assumed every day a deeper arid more
death-like hue.
There was one object which intruded into
ull my dreams. 1 need only name itscharac
t . r, in order to enlist the sympathy of every
t r-.-.der hearted reader. It was a young widow,
tor whom 1 felt a particular regard, and to
'•.Loin—:f i must speak out, 1 was on gaged
to iie married on my return home. She was
r y fust love, ! had paid my addresses to her
before, her marriage, but was too bashful to
d.—lart*myseliexplicitly ;& while I balanced
matters :n tnv own mind, and sought by the
guiltiest hints to disclose my passion, she,
by suite totality—-by mere accident, as 1 have
u.iicc understood, rnarrid a certian Jeremiah
brr.ith, a fellow fur whom, and for w hose
name, i had always entertained a sovereign
mid special contempt. I did not blame her
in marry;, ii/, for that was tier privilege ; but
to wud a hi tow named Jerry! and of all the
Jerries jo the world to pitch upon Jerry
f r'-'j h siliy jiKmiguitc, not aortii
a single brass farthing, was too bad! It was!
flying in tlie face of propriety, and treating!
her other lovers, w ho were numerous, with in
dignity.
l’oor girl ! she had asad time of if, for Jer
ry treated her worse than a brute ; but at the
end of two years he had the grace to pop off,
leaving her penny less and as pretty as ever.—
It wa3 a longtime after her widowhood before
we met; I could not call on her, and as to
courting Jerry Smith’s widow, that seemed
out of the question. But when we did meet,
she looked so sad and beautiful, and smiled
so pensively, and talked ao sweetly of old
times, that all her power of fascination over
me revived. 1 began to visit her, thinking
of nothing more at first, than to show her mv
superiority over Jerry Smith, and to convince
her how great a slight she had show n to my
merits in selecting him. But in trying to
make myself agreeable to the widow, she be
came so very agreeable to me, t!;at in spite of
.all my former resolutions, 1 offered Her my
band, which was accepted with the most
charming grace imaginable. This was just
before my journey, and as that could not be
postponed, we agreed to put off the wedding
until iny return.
Such was the beautiful vision that had
smiled upon inc through all my wanderings;
but which now’ was presented to my distem
pered fancy, arrayed in the brighest colours.
In vain did I sometimes try to banish it. I
thought of business, my farm, my negroes,
my tobacco—but anon came tlie graceful
widow, with that •ae smile and blush that
she wore when she faintly murmured ‘ no,’
and expressively looked ‘yes,’—there she
was, hanging fondly over me, and chiding
my delay.
This could not last for ever; and just
when every body thought that 1 was about to
die, I grew better ; and to my great joy was
put on board a steam boat bound for f,ouis
viile. for a day or two I continued to r•-
cruit; change of air, scene and food, did
wonders; but tlie happiness of speedy recove
ry was not latcd to be mine. 1 had embark
ed in a steam boat of the largest class, on board
of which were four hundred passengers.—
The weather was excessively hot, there were
many sick among us, and the atmosphere be
tween the decks soon became impure. The
yellow fever was said to be on board; and
our comfortless situation was rendered dread
ful by the panic that ensued. I relapsed,
and was soon prono unccd past recovery.
I had the yellow fever, and was con
sidered a fatal hearer of contagion. It was
thought proper to remove me from the boat,
and to abandon inc to my fate, rather than
endanger the lives of others.
1 was accordingly put onshore; but when
or how it happened 1 know not 1 have a
faint recollection of being lowered into the
yawl, and seeing people gazing at me; 1
heard one say “ he'll die in an iiour;” another
inquired my name; one voice pitied me;
and another said 1 had made a happy escape
from pain. I thought they were about to
bury me, and became senseless.
V\ lien 1 recoved my consciousness, I found
inysclt in a cabin on the shore of the Mis
sissippi. A kind family had received and
nursed me, and had i. night me back to life
after I had been long insensible. They were
poor people, who made their living oy cut
ting tire wood to supply eho steamboats; a
lean and sallow tatniiy, whose bilious com
plexions, and attenuated forms, attested the
withering influence of a corrupted atmos
phere. They Had tlie languid southern eye,
tlie heavy gait, and slow speech ot persons
enervated by burning sun-beams and humid
breezes.
for two weeks I was unable to raise from
the miserable bed with which their kindness
had supplied me. 1 counted every log in the
wretched cabin , tny eye became familiar
with all the coats, gowns, & leathern hunting
s!wrts that hung from the rafters. 1 noted
each crevice, and set down in mv memory all
the furniture and cooking utensels.
Fur fourteen long summer days my eyes
had no other employment but to wander over
these few objects again and again, until at
lust nothing was left to be discovered, and I
closed them in tlie disgust occasioned by the
sameness of the Scene, or strained them in
search of something new, until my ey balls
ached. But I had no more feverish dreams,
and when I thought of the widow Smith, it
was with the delight of newly awakened hope;
and with the confidence that better days and
brighter scenes even yet awaited me at home.
At last l was able to crawl to the door, and
to see the sun, the green trees, and the wabr.
It was a most refreshing sight; although the
landscape itselt was any thing but attractive.
The cabin stood on the bank of the river, in a
low alluvial bottom. It was surrounded and
overhung by a forest of immense trees, whose
tall dark trunks rose to the height of sixty or
seventy feet, without a branch, and then
threw out their vast lateral boughs, and heavy
foliage, so luxuriantly as entirely to exclude
the sun. Beneath that dense canopy of shade,
were long, dark, and gloomy vistas; where
the Indian might well fancy himself sur
rounded by the spirits of" his departed
friends.
The soil itself had a dismal aspect; the
" hole surface had been inundated but a few
weeks past; the fallen leaves of last year,
saturated and blackened by long immersion,
wero covered with a thick deposite of mud,
and the recking mass sent up volumes of
noxious vapor. Before the house was a naked
sand-bar, sparkling and glowing with heat.—
In the middle of the river was a large sawyer,
an immense log, the entire ‘runk of a majestic
oak, whose root clung to the bottom, while
the other end extending down the stream,
rose to the surface, the current giving it a
heavy and enternal motion ; now appearing
some twenty feet of the huge black mass a
bove the surface, and then sinking again in
the water with the regular swing of a pen- 1
tiuhim. I gazed for hours at that perpetual
sec-saw, wondering what law of nature gov
erned its exact vibrations. Hi re the hideous
alligator might be seen rocking through half
a day as if in the cm joy merit of an agreeable
summst Mmwmmwmmm*
recreation; while droves of these animals,
sporting in the stream, or crawling on the
beach, roared like so many bulls, filling the
whole forest with their bellowing®. Added
to those sounds, were tho braying of the wolf,
the croaking of innumerable frogs, and the
buz of myriads of musquitoes. Under any
other circumstances, I should have thought
myself in Pandemonium; but I had in the
last few weeks endured so much pain, passed
through so many horrors, and trembled so
long upon the brink of the grave, that I en
joyed the sun, the breeze and the verdure,
even with these dismal accompaniments. 1
was even agreeably situated ; for so great and
! pleasing was the change, in having my mind
| relieved from its abstraction, that 1 could
gaze placidly for hours upon natural objects
I of the most common description, and converse
t with interest on the most trivial s lbjects. Of
all forms, none are so hideous or so terrify
ing, as the horrid creations of a distempered
imagination.
For another fortnight I remained content
ed, gradually gaining strength; and then
finding myself again able to travel, I took inv
passage in a steam boat for Louisville. The
river was now extremely low, and we ad
vanced slowly, sometimes running aground
upon sand-bars, and always getting forward
with difficulty. At length we reached oui
port, and I sprung with delight upon the soil
of Kentucky. Among the steam boats lying
along the shore, dismantled and laid up for
the season, was the vessel in which f had em
barked at New Orleans, a feeble invalid, and
which had left me almost a corpse.
My baggage consisted of several well filled
trunks ; one of which, a common black leath
er travelling trunk, I purchased at New Or
leans, and packed with articles of finery, for
my intended bride. On sitting me ashore at
the wood-cutter’s, the captain of the boat had
been careful to land my several chattels, and
I now proceeded with them to a hotel in
Louisville. My baggage was carried into a
bar-room crowded with gentlemen, and I
had scarcely time to turn round, when a
lank, agile Frenchman, with tremendous
whiskers, darted forward, and seizing mv
black trunk, seemed to be about to appropri
ate to his own use all my nuptial presents.
“ That is mv trunk, sir,” said 1.
“ Aha ! sair ! you say dat you tronk! Sair,
dat is not your tionk V*
“ Excuse me, sir, it is undoubtedly mine.”
“ Ah! ma for! I shall not excuse you sair!
sair, if you say dis your tronk, you no gentle
man'”
Ashe said this he jerked a key from his
pocket, thrust it into tho lock, threw open
the deputed trunk, and to my utter conster
nation, and the infinite amusement of all
others present, displayed a magazine of ‘'sun
dries” as undoubtedly French as his own
accent.
“ Dare! vat you say now, sair!” he ex
claimed, triumphantly, as he threw out the
contents, “ you say dat your coat ? dat your
waistcoat ? your fiddlestrings 7 your musique
note ? your every ting? Sair, you are no gen
tleman, if you say dat your tronk !”
“ I ask your pardon,” said I, “the trunk is
not mine; but there is a strange mystery in
this affair, which I cannot pretend toun * el.”
“ Ah, very much mystery, for some oder
gentleman get my tronk, and make me wear
my linen in dis hot country for five or six
weeks.”
“ The fault is not mine; I purchased a
trunk at New Orleans so nearly resembling
that one, if I was not convinced by the con
tents, 1 would still think it mine. lam sor
ry to have been the innocent cause of any
inconvenience to yon.”
'‘Very well : I buy my tronk at New Or
leans too—-dat is how he look so much alike;
very sorry for you sair ; but I cannot let you
have my tronk, indeed, sair.”
is ood mortified and confounded ; cutting
a very awkward figure in tlie presence of a
large company, who viewed this odd adven
ture with astonishment—l began almost to
doubt my own identity, and to fancy myself
transformed by magic into somebody else.—
It seemed as if iny ill luck was never to cease,
I dreaded least this incident should prove
prophetic, and as I had seen my trunk trans
formed under my very nose, into the trunk
of another gentleman, I feared tiiat I might
find my widow changed into another man’s
wife. I was somewhat relieve! by the cap
tain ofthe steam boat, who had witnessed this
scene, and who now stepped forward, and in
formed me that my trunk, which had been
exchanged by mistake, was on board his
boat.
Feeling in no mood to visit my acquaint
ances, I directed my course to the counting
house of a merchant, upon whom I held a
draft. On banding it to bis clerk he return
ed it, observing,
“ The drawee of this bill is dead, sir, and
vve have instructions not to pay it.”
“ I am the drawee,” returned i.
“ There must be some mistake,” replied
the clerk, very coolly! Mr. M. in whose fa
vor it is drawn, is certainly dead. Wc have
it from his hen.”
“ Heir ! don’t you suppose, sir, that I am
the best judge whether 1 am dead or alive !”
“Can’t say, sir—sorry to dispute any gen
tleman’s word—but my orders—”
“ Sir, you don’t only dispute my word, you
deny my existence —don’t you see me and
hear me, and can’t you feel me ?” said I, lay
ing my long cold bands upon his sott while
palm.
“Verry sorry,” repeated the book-keeper,
withdrawing his hand as if a viper had touch
ed it, “ but my principal is absent—l act un
der instructions—and Mr. M.’s account is
closed on our pooks.”
“This is the strangest turn of all,’’said I, “J
am dead—my heir has entered upon the es
tate—the widow mourns over my grave ! Very
pretty truly ! 1 shall next be told that this is
not Kentucky, and that l am not, and never
was Edward M.”
Angry and dispirited, I turned into a public
reading room, and sought for a file of news
paper published in my own ncighorhood. I
looked for an old date, and soon found
—my own obituary ! and learned that in my
untimely death societv had been deprived Jf
a MPcft i\ member, toy kindred of an afl'ection
ate relative, and my servants of a kind mas-1
terl Upon further research, l stu b!ed upon i
a notice from my adrninstrator—the next of
km; inviting all my debtors.to settle their
accounts. I saw no announcement < * the
widow’s death—aud concluding tVt her
strength of mind had enabled her to survive
my “ untimely death,” I determined to set
out for home instantly, as well to relieve the
burthen of her sorrow, as to re-assuine the
privilege of collecting my own debts.
After a tiresome journey, I arrived on the
night of lie third day in my own neighbor
hood. Concealed by the darkness, I reached
my own door without being recognized. My
servants fled when they perceived ine, scream
ing with surprise and tcrroi. 1 followed them
into the house. In the hall stood a gentle
man and lady, who had been drawn thither
by the uproar. They were the “ next of
kin” and—the widow Smith! The former,
being a man of spirit, stood Ins ground, but
the lady screamed and fled.
“ Will you be good enough to tell me, sir,” j
said I, “whether 1 uin dead or alive V’
“We have mourned your death,” said my
nephew, with an embarrassed air, “but I -•# i
happy to find that you are alive, and most
sincerely welcome you home.” “ Supposing
the fact to be that I am alive,” said 1, “ will
you do me the kindness to tell me whether
I am master of this house ?”
“Surely you are, and”—
“ Do not interrupt me ;’you are my admin
istrator not guardian, I desire to be alone.”
The young man looked offended, and then
emiled superciliously, as if he thought me in
sane, and turning on his heel, walked oil’.
1 retired to my chamber, and having with
some difficulty drawn my servants about me,
and convinced them of my identity, took sup
per and went to bed. About the widow I
made no inquiry; circumstances looked so
suspicious that I dreaded to hear the truth.
In the morning I rose. I sallied forth and
gazed with delight upon my fields, my trees,
and the thousand familiar objects that are
comprised witlwfi that one endearing word
—home. My negroes crowded about me to
welcome me, inquire after my health, arid
tell me all that had happened to them. Pass
ing over these matters as briefly as possible,
I proceeded to probe the subject nearest
my heart, and—what think you, gentle reader
was tlie result ? the widow Smith was married
to the “ next of kin !” They had left my
house at tlvp dawn that morning.
I have only to add that I have entirely
recovered my health and spirits; and that as j
Jerry Smith’s widow has twice slipped through
mv fingers, undervalued my character, and 1
slighted my affection, and at last married |
that wild scamp, my nephew, whom 1 had be- j
fore thought of disinheriting, 1 am determined j
that neither of them shall ever touch a dollar f
of iny money ; and to effect this lamia ble ob-1
ject, I am resolved not to live single, nor die j
Intestate.
AVhrrc L!lcrty dwells there is my country*
From the Ohio Sun.
THE INSIDE OF A FACTORY.
Or, Despotism Unveiled.
In another column of our paper, under the
caption of“Mr Clay’s Tariff notions—pub
lished and unpublished,” will be found an
interesting description of the inside of a fac
tory, and the perfect despotism with which it
is governed. \Ye ask,ar.d to be seriously an
swered where is tlie parent that would wish
to see his son or his daughter wearing out such
a life, under an unfeeling iron-hearted task
master? Is that beautiful simplicity which j
once pervaded society, and brought health
and happiness to every door—when the moth
er and the daughter were to he found, cheer
ful and free as the bird which chirped at their
cottage window, with their humming wheel,
manufacturing their own clothing, in their
own neat way—now to he changed for the
filthy confined atmosphere and slavish despo
tism of a factory ? Yes, this is the awful and
astonishing doctrine of the day ! And, as we
are impudently told, ail, all, too for the benefit
of tho poor. The smiling promising boy,
and the young blooming maiden, are to be
driven from their <;vn “ vine and fig tree,”
into the embrace of a despotism, from which
they can never escape. All done, too, as we
are told, for their own good !
The American citizen reads, with sorrow
and indignation, the accounts, from the Euro
pean papers, of thcoppressed, of the starving,
of the hordes of poverty that throng the streets
and roads of Manchester, or that pine away,
almost unheared, in some dark lonely retreat,
as if hid from the face of a guilty world. But,
does he ever reflect, that almost every person
he meets, in his rounds of pleasure or of toil
is an advocate, yea, a strenuous advocate, for
a system of things that is certain to produce
the same scene here? This is a startling, a
lamentable fact. We are in favor of home
industry—of American manufactures—but
save us from such a system, from such a plan
of operations, as makes one portion of the
American family, proud, overbearing, ava
ricious lordlings ofthe land, while the other
portion are made beasts of burden—mere
vassals in their hands, to be used, like slaves,
at their pleasure !
A NATION TAXED BY A MISTAKE.
It is a curious fact, that, under the ncwTariff
Law, every man is to he taxed fifteen percent,
upon cvey coat he puts on his back, owing to
a mistake. We have the information from
three different Members of Congress—and,
as it is a matter of some moment that the peo
ple should not ascribe to scientific legislation
what is due alone to blunders, we will relate
the occurrence as we received it.
It will be recollected that, in the bill re
ported by the Secretary of the Treasury, to
Congress, on the 17th of Apil, and which will
he found in this paper of 9th May, it was pro
vided that tlie duty on woollen cloths costing
upwards of 50 cents per square yard should
be thirty per centum. This bill was rr
ferred to the Committee on Manufactures,
and constituted the basis of the one reported
by that Committee. Now, it is confidently
asserted that this Committee, after giving a
•ij'iturc t tieg* !<■>.: to the subject, decided to fix
the duty upon such woolens ut thirty-fee per |
centum', but, by some means or other,when
tiie printed bill made its appearance in the.
House, it was found to contuia fifty per centum '
instead of thirty-five. The error was imme
diately discovered by one cf tlig Committee,
who mentioned it to some of his colleagues,
and it was admitted, asweundertsood, by all
ora majority of them, that the bill was erro
neously printed. Upon consultation, how
ever, it was agreed not to have the bill re
printed, but to correct the error by a motion
to strike out 50 and insert '■bo, when the bill
should be under discussion.
Upon reft rring to the proceedings, we can
not however, discover that any such motion
was ever made; and the bill was suffered to
pass with the fifty per centum. Perhaps it
was thought inexpedient to disturb the bill
in so important a particular, lest it might lead
io other changes that would lie fatal to it; fur,
to the bill, when reported by the Committee,
was pronounced to bo one founded upon a
compromise amongst the Committee, which
conferred on it the only character that gave
it a chance of a favorable reception by (he
House, u was probably thought that the fewer
changes made, the better. Be this as
| it may, the duty of fifty per centum was re
tained in the bill because it was reported bp
the c can mi tee ; and all our information agree
that the hill would just as certainly have
passed had the rate been fixed in the printed
bill at thirty-five per cent. How the error
arose, i.s not precisely known—but it is not
believed to have been the result cf design.
W e should like to see tiie matter explained
hy some of the Committee ; and we would
recommend Congress, when they pass such
hills in future, to put at the bottom of them,
as the merchants do to their accounts, “ errors
excepted.”
THE CHOLERA.
The pestilence is among us. Notwith
standing all our caution—the extreme clean-1
iiness of our city—our favourable location—:
the general comfort of our inhabitants—the !
absence of that wretchedness and destitu-!
tion which have elsewhere contributed to
swell the number of the victims, we have not;
b( en able to escape the threatened visitation, j
The pestilence is among us. Many cases in
which the symptons were too strongly mark
ed to admit of doubt or discussion have occur. |
red, and we can no longer shut our "eyes or
close our ears upon what we see and'hear a
round us. It would be folly to do so. We have
done what we con'd toavert the evil, failing
in that it now becomes us to do what we may |
to remedy it. That we shall meet it as we
ought, no one who has observed the state of
feeling prevalent among our citizens during
the past week can for a moment doubt. A
great affliction is acknowledged to have come
upon our hitherto favored city, hut in compa
rison with other places,we still feel ourselves
to be highly favored. We do not make light,
of the trial which wc are to undergo; but while
we acknowledge a sober and decent sadness
of thought upon the subject, we know neither
fear nor disquietude. There is no panic—
no alarm—no preparation for flight, except,
perhaps, in a few individual cases;*the public
mind is undisturbed-ebusiness, though dull &
inactive, progresses in its usual train, and the
relations of social intercourse have neither
suffered shock nor change. It is possi
ble this state cf' things may not lust—it i&
possible that terror may usurp the place of
judgment, and give way to doubt, but we hope
and believe not. Wc rely upon the discre
tion, and (if we may so speak) the patriotism
of our citizens.
There is no real cause for alarm. A majo
rity of the cases which have been reported
have happened arnongthe squalid and intern
perate; and mail the cases impropriety in
diet or exposure has been fully demonstrated*
This is consoling for the temperate and pru
dent, but there is another strong ground of
reliance. So far as the facts can he ascer
tained no instance of Cholera lias taken place
in this city in which the patient was not pre
monished by those symptoms which, unless
duly attended to, are infallible precursors of
the disease. They who are affected with tii
arrhoee, cramp in the legs, or any distress of
the alimentary canal, have received a fore
warning which ought in no case lobe neglec
ted. W hen any or all these symptoms appear
let instant application be made to a physician
and there will be no danger. In its incipient
stages, in tne opinion of all medical men,
Cholera can be certainly arrested. Why then
should we be terrified? Fear in all diseases
strongly predisposes to an attack, and many
of the victims of Cholera have fallen in con
sequence of their own timidity.
They who abandon their homes increase
the danger to themselves and others. Their
flight indicates terror in themselves, and in
fuses the same feeling into the minds o ;- oth
ers. To what place can they flee for securi
ty ? Cos where they may, the pestilence will
follow them. In the North, the South, the
East and the West, it has hung out its ban
ners, a. and the whole land will soon be under
its dominion. The change of air, and habits
—the difference in the water which is used
—and like circumstances acting in conjunc
tion with the anxiety which they who have
left their friends in supposed peril cannot
help but fe* l, operate most unfavorably in pro
ducing a strong predisposition to attack.—
And it they are attacked in the country, far
away ftom their friends and their homes,
without the means of that medical aid ami
assistance, and those little offices of kindness
to which they have oeen accustomed, is not
the probability of recovery lessened ? But,
even should they escape while away they in
crease tenfold their liability to danger wi, t . u
they return. Persons who arc daily
the Choleric atmosphere, grudu'„jiy become
accustomed to it, and are rendered unsuscep
tible to its influence, whi’ <e they, who come
suddenly and unprepared into its sphere from
a pure and uninfected uir, are of necessity,
very iikuty to bo affected by it.
"V say therefore to our fellow citizens, do
not forsake your business and voui dwellings,
but remain and pursue your accustomed avo
cations in your accustomed way. With care
vou are almost certain ot exemption from this
disease, and by timely effort?, even if assailed
you can drive cut the enemy. To fly
fish and cowardly, and can give no^L* 1 ;
security to your persons, while it uw-.v.
endangers your property. Look at \ T C ‘ W v
and see the burglaries which are native
mitted, and do not expose yourselves t ', ,
risk of similar evils. —Philadelphia q, j\ !:la
We understand Aiiti-TardFcount- y
tings are to be held shortly, i n Col Ul X!'
Muscogee county, and Clinton,'Jones coal, ’
and our readers will notice the one cul! e i r’
Newton. At the former, we understand 1
Representative, Judge Clayton, is to be fl
ted specially to attend, and we trust u J
comport with his.engagemcnts to comply!
the roqust. The ir.formation he
upon the subject of our grievances, is at Tj
time, invaluable to our people. “
It is proposed, tfe understand, to boll I
similar meeting in this place, during the LI
suing term of the Superior conrt, whichtaEl
place the week after next. Of this, due
tice will be given our citizens, and at ivlJj
wc have no fears, that the patriotism ot
win will suffer in comparison with her
counties.— Horn. llcc.
Them are a few p< rsonfr, with whom J
h ive conversed, who console themselves ,i 1
in the last resort, we can nullify the North J
manufacturing monopolists, simply by b, CO J
ing maeufacturers ourselves. Tliis’ ton Jj
tion has appeared to us very much akin
that offered hy a Mr. Knight, of Rhode RiJ
a staunch supporter, in Congress, of the n-M
tective system. He, to be sure, dees nouj
vise us to become manufacturers tolhe
onment of our agricultural pursuits, so -,) a ”9
!v indicated by nature, as those which 'it fl
host for us to follow ; but suggests, that ij
the tariff system has destroyed the profits
our cotton culture, we should turn n Mr
tion to the production of Madder, that bciil
suitable toour climate, and one of the artiojl
upon which, for the present, there is notafl
1 Should we adopt this advice, we will at leal
take care to make a bargain beforehand
i "hen it becomes an article of Southern rqioV
: Mr. Dickerson’s sun-shine system shall
be suffered to interfere with it Sou /fo ■
The following incident, wi- are inform
occurred at the Anti-Tariff meeting, held
Monticello, on the 11th inst:
Judge Clayton had just commenced his a
dress to the meeting, when he was imi
rupted by an individual, who made the eJ
ry, whether, in reference to the Tariff, he J
not given a toast in Sout!i-Carolina,“Hi t|
dallies is a dastard,”&c. The Judge inid
diately responded* that he had, and took J
present occasion to repeat the sentinienj
“He that hesitates and halts when Soathl
rights & Southern liberties are at stake!
coward and a dastard”—which was receil
bv the meetiing with deafening shoutsofl
piausc, to the utter confusion and discomfit!
of the inquisitive querist.— j
MS. is. Heed X Thomas
ILL transact the Ware-house, floating!
Vf Commission Business in Macon, Gel!
der the name and firm of I
Reed Sr Blair, I
They have taken the Warehouse and WharfH
above the Bridge known as Cutter’s ware-hl
They will render the same facilities tfl
Planters, Buyers and Shippers of Cotton thafl
other like establishment in tiie place. II
W are-house is safe from the danger of (ire,!
posesses tiie advantages of a good Wham
close Store House, all of which will heal
good repair for the reception of Cotton ar.ig™
They solicit a share of public patronage- H
Mr. Reed acknowledges with pleasure inel
ral patronage which lie has received hoctfl
from bis friends and acquaintances and rcsH
oily solicits the continuance of the sans tl
above firm. ■
REED V BLAlfl
Aug. 19. 1832.
I IT OLDERSHAW has on hand,:
• assortment of curled mattrasses, both and
and single, which he will sell on fair terms,
Aug. 19. !l
JWtlire.
BANK STATE OF GEORj
Branch, Macon Aug- ‘-21J
A N Election of Notary for this Office 'I
> a held on Tuesday the 28th inst. A tj
the sum of i? 1000 will be required, with
to be approved by the Board. I
Applications with the names ofsecuritiel
be handed to the Cashier before the day ill
tion. NATH. BARKER, <1
Aug. 21, 1832.
rrtO the holders of HAWKINSVILIfI
NOTES.— AII persons \vho are doub*
requested t • send any amount they h?,w|
Bank, where United States Notes, or Sill
ready for their redemption, or should tbffl
it, an Agent will be on in ten days, who**
up said Notes. I
JOHN RAWLS,Pr?I
Aug. 10,1932. \
IJROPOS ALS will be received bv n-*
Ist October next, to fence 175 aerrsfl
on the border of Jones and Bibb counUo*B
as MrDougalds fraction, about six nn®
M aeon. Fence to be ten rails high. ■
THOS. LOW, Adm’rofW
of Thos. Lundy, d®
August 18, 1832. I
NOTICE. —Debtors to theestats of/oH
song late of Oglethorpe county, dec®
quested to make payment; those having®
against said estate, arc hereby notified,tfl
them in terms of the law. B
ROBERT BIRO^tNG,■
CEO. W.BIRDSONG,®
Aug. 20, 1832. 1
PRINTED Uists cf the Drawing ■
X tue* la’ed (Sold and I,anil LoltcriS®
regularly issued from this office. 'D'ff®
,v -i m Numbers so that they may bv V
ge ther in pamphlet form. , I
Persons desirous of becoming
forward their namos to ns, post
the cash and they will be attend'd 1 ®
should mention the post office to wind l ®
hers should be directed. .H
The whole work will contain about J®
and cannot be afforded at less than Jo* 1 ®
bsrs, paid in advance.
1 POLIULL &Ct Tiim
Milledgeville, Aug. 21, 1832.
WO HUNT....The Ware Houne®
■* Storage building formerly owned V
pied by L.a;nar (’/>. Apply Kb ,®
J. A. camfbkuß
August 21. ft